Despite Barhoum's claim, Palestinian terror groups in the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave are firing longer-range Grad-type Katyusha rockets from time to time - in addition to Kassam rockets and mortar shells - on southern Israel.

During the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006, Hezbollah launched an estimated 4,000 Katyushas on northern Israel.

The IDF estimates that Iran and Syria have brought Hezbollah's missile stockpile to upwards of 40,000.